Reusable Java and WCF Service Test Clients

I needed a reusable method to recursively test a WCF service host I had written from both the Java and .NET worlds. I wanted to be able to submit the test harness with service WSDL and pass in test parameters. 
Being familiar with Microsoft technology, I knew exactly where I could find a reusable WCF client test harness (located at %installDir%:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio [...]

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User Impersonation in WCF

In some integration scenarios, impersonation is required, where a WCF service is required to assume the caller’s identity. Though this usually happens for a single call, the impersonation token could be retained for future use by the WCF servce. The reason impersonation is most relevant to integration scenarios is because all WCF service code running [...]

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Summary of default WCF Bindings

A binding in WCF is one of the most important concepts behind the WCF architecture itself. Developers can create their own bindings if the below default WCF bindings do not suit a purpose by extending CustomBinding.
First a definition of what a binding controls. A WCF binding controls the following:

Transport (HTTP, MSMQ, Named Pipes, TCP)
Channel (one-way, duplex, request-reply)
Encoding (XML, [...]

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